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Encountering water in early modern Europe and beyond : redefining the universe through natural philosophy, religious reformations, and sea voyaging /
Both the Christian Bible and Aristotle's works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth. Though many ancient, medieval, and early modern Europeans relied on these works to understand and explore the relationships between water and earth, particularly sixteenth-century Europeans were e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Why Water?
- 1. Athens and Jerusalem on Water
- 2. Gathering Water in Exegetical Texts
- 3. Defining Water in Natural Philosophical Texts
- 4. Describing and Depicting Water in Cosmographical and Geographical Texts
- 5. Water in Newly Rediscovered Ancient and Medieval Texts
- 6. Exploring the Created Universe through Water
- 7. Sea Voyages and the Water-Earth Relationship
- Afterword : The Redefinition of the Universe and the Twenty-First-Century Water Crisis
- General Bibliography
- Index